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by harrumph 8y ago
> black tie ceremony OMG that trophy is indistinguishable from any other tacky chunk of lucite that, say, a particularly motivated carpet distributor might earn as a sales award. Not to insult carpet distributors, whose work with tangibl
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by harrumph 8y ago
> You can't steal in the course of an investigation what was already stolen as part of the crime. Sorry, what?
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by harrumph 8y ago
"Why yes, the wallet we found was empty. Totally empty."
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by harrumph 8y ago
Any fans of the fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson are nodding their heads at this news. Communal living is a big theme with his stuff.
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by harrumph 8y ago
No, I own the company. I’ll let you know what’s correct and what isn’t about the enterprise, thanks. When one day you graduate to running a business, please run payroll in the way you describe. Your error will be very plain then. You’re we
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by harrumph 8y ago
>You had to invest in the company, unlike the employees. We all had to. We all are owners. > ou carry far more risk than the employees. False - an stems from the foundational presumption you made stemming from your ideological indoct
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Oof, argumenting by labor theory of value in 2019. Try reading more than one book. I own a company. Thanks to my direct experience, I know very well where value comes from: labor alone. Enjoy the purple sky (and the glib, wrong, one-lin
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by harrumph 8y ago
That makes as much sense as calling the earth’s tidal ebb and flow “crony gravitation”. The present situation is the rule, not the exception. And if morality is your concern, then it’s the fundamental operation of capitalism you have a pro
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Can you list a few sectors of the economy that are driven entirely by taxpayer money through the government? You can begin with a symbol -- the largest single private employer on the planet, the retailer named Walmart. A fully subsidiz
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by harrumph 8y ago
>What are you trying to argue? Taxes are good, because some part of them is redistributed back to private companies? I'm arguing the fact that spending by government is literally the engine of our own and all other economies, and th
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by harrumph 8y ago
>I feel better about the money staying in the hands of people that actually (and efficiently) provide useful services and products to people, unlike bureaucrats in the government who have no incentive to do things well and be efficient (
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by harrumph 8y ago
>gaping blind spot when it comes to the distinction between "anyone could do this" and "everyone can do this" Agree. These are exactly the enormously important subtleties that are lost when education omits training in
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Lethal robots are not a technology that can really be regulated by ban. Bans aren't merely about regulating technology, they're about regulating human behavior by introducing consequences. They're about a society making
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by harrumph 8y ago
It is you that is missing the point. Their army is not worth noticing because it's "powerful", it must not be overlooked because of what role it serves in the economy. It builds cities itself. Armies don't build (doze
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by harrumph 8y ago
They build cities...using their army . Your description of the country's general economic characteristics is off-the-charts wrong, and is especially wrong concerning the area where Pinker pretends that liberalized markets are why pov
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by harrumph 8y ago
> IMO globalist capitalism has increased living standards for the poorest people in countries that were well-run enough to take advantage of it, China in particular. But China is not a market economy and as such can't be described s
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by harrumph 8y ago
>I’d recommend finding a good therapist that specializes in generalized anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in particular can be really helpful at giving you tools to manage it. I would recommend the same, for myself and many of my fri
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by harrumph 8y ago
Thanks again!
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by harrumph 8y ago
Thanks - I suspected you were saying as much. MongoDB aside, can you share examples of this process?
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by harrumph 8y ago
>is they will inevitably roll over any piece of software Can you please clarify? I'm researching AWS and am interested in the historical practices of the company, but I'm not sure what "roll over" means in the contex
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Because there is an audience for it which shares their agenda. Exactly true.
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by harrumph 8y ago
I'm proud of HN for mostly seeing through the steaming crap in this piece. This article is the latest entry in a many decades-long campaign of capitalist propaganda dedicated to promoting the concept of "markets" as choiceles
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by harrumph 8y ago
Addressing any shock and revulsion following this story: Because capitalist organizations are literally founded upon the act of constant appropriation of the surplus value created by their own employees, it's not reasonable to expect
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by harrumph 8y ago
>then you shouldn’t say “Zero mystery here” There’s zero mystery about OP showing misanthropy, but I can’t say where it comes from. Let me know if there’s anything else I can clear up for you as you struggle to remain current in the disc
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by harrumph 8y ago
Me: >I’ve had bad neighbors You: > you’ve clearly stated there’s no such thing as a bad neighbor I wish you luck managing the effects of your wild imagination in the future.
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by harrumph 8y ago
>you’ve clearly never had bad neighbors No, I’ve had bad neighbors. What I haven’t done is to generalize the experience to seek to avoid neighbors as a class, which is exactly what misanthropy is, as well as exactly what white flight and
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Then what is its root cause? I can only guess. I'll be thinking about it. I will say that fear -- useful fear, wielded as a whip of control in various ways -- is central to any process of de-socialization. And I know who surely ha
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by harrumph 8y ago
>The language might seem harsh to you, but you'd understand it if you'd ever lived with or near such people. I understand it perfectly well, I've lived in densely populated cities my whole life. It's a naked display o
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I Killed Sears, and I'm Sorry(chicagobusiness.com)
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by harrumph 8y ago
>Any readings on how European unions work? To me, the major and defining difference between US vs. European management/labor relationships is found in Germany's principle of co-determination. https://en.wikipedia.org

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